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Table of contents

User Manual

1

Important Information

3

Chapter 2

5

Chapter 3

5

Chapter 4

7

Chapter 5

8

Chapter 6

8

Chapter 7

9

Chapter 8

10

Contents

11

Activities

16

About This Manual

17

G Tutorial

18

C:\dir1name\dir2name\filename

20

Related Documentation

21

Customer Communication

21

BridgeVIEW Concepts

22

Part I BridgeVIEW Concepts

23

Introduction

24

Required System Configuration

25

Installation

25

What Is BridgeVIEW?

26

How Does BridgeVIEW Work?

26

G Programming

27

Tag Configuration

28

Data Type

28

Connection

29

Operations

29

Security

30

User HMI Application

31

BridgeVIEW Engine

32

Device Servers

32

Where Should I Start?

33

Examples

34

BridgeVIEW Environment

35

Virtual Instruments

36

Icon/Connector

37

Tools Palette

38

Controls Palette

39

Functions Palette

39

Controls and Indicators

40

Tank Simulation.vi

42

End of Activity 2-1

44

Table 2-1

45

Table 2-2

47

BridgeVIEW\Syslog

48

Figure 2-2

48

Figure 2-3

49

What Is the Tag Browser?

50

Table 2-3

51

What Is the Tag Monitor?

52

Figure 2-5

53

Tag Monitor Utility

53

Table 2-4

54

Figure 2-6

55

Status Details Dialog Box

55

Figure 2-7

55

Figure 2-8

56

Simple/Complex Help View

57

Links to Online Help Files

58

General Attributes

60

Connection Attributes

60

Operation Attributes

60

Scaling Attributes

60

Alarm Attributes

61

Static vs. Dynamic Attributes

61

How Do You Create a Tag?

63

How Do You Edit a Tag?

63

How Do You Delete a Tag?

63

What are Network Tags?

64

How Do You Add Network Tags?

65

How Do You Configure Tags?

68

String Tags

69

Figure 3-5

71

Tag Connection Dialog Box

71

I/O Group Configuration

72

Figure 3-6

73

Server Configuration Options

74

Item Configuration

76

What Is a Memory Tag?

77

Table 3-4

81

What Is Deadband?

82

How Do You Use Deadband to

82

IncreaseEngineThroughput?

82

How Do You Configure a Tag

83

Analog Tags

85

Discrete Tags

86

Bit Array Tags

87

Figure 3-10

88

Table 3-6

88

Bit Array Scaling Examples

88

Table 3-7

90

Auto Ack on Normal

95

Tag Configuration Parameters

96

BridgeVIEW\Activity\Solutions

100

User must Ack

100

Table 3-11

100

End of Activity 3-1

101

How Do You Configure Shifts?

102

Table 3-12

103

Chapter 3 Tag Configuration

104

Human Machine Interface

105

How Do You Build an HMI?

106

Front Panel Objects

107

HMI G Wizard

107

Table 4-1

108

HMI G Wizard Operations

108

Figure 4-1

111

HMI G Wizard Dialog Box

111

Generate the Block Diagram

112

Subdiagram Association

112

BridgeVIEW\Activity

113

Real-Time Trend

113

End of Activity 4-1

115

Control Editor

116

BridgeVIEW

117

End of Activity 4-2

119

Tag Data Type

121

Activity 4-3. Read a Tag

125

Block Diagram

126

End of Activity 4-3

128

Figure 4-4

132

Process View Display VI

132

Tank Temperature

133

Trend Tank Level

133

Figure 4-5

134

Two Trend Display VI

134

Figure 4-6

134

Figure 4-7

136

Figure 4-8

137

Alarms and Events

138

Alarm Priority

139

Alarm Summary

139

Event History

139

Chapter 5 Alarms and Events

140

<ALL>

141

End of Activity 5-1

142

Alarm Summary Display

144

End of Activity 5-2

146

How Do You Configure Logging

147

Historical Data Logging

152

Historical Data VIs

155

BridgeVIEW\Activity\Data

157

End of Activity 6-1

160

Panning Buttons

162

Manual Changes

162

How Do You Change the Y Axis?

163

Has Been Logged to Citadel?

165

BridgeVIEW\

166

Activity\Data

166

End of Activity 6-2

168

Advanced Application Topics

169

Figure 7-1

170

Panel G Wizard

170

Will Be Polled?

171

My Menu Bar.vi

172

My Alarm Summary with Ack.vi

172

End of Activity 7-1

173

Virtual Instrument

174

BridgeVIEW System Control

175

Tag Attributes VIs

177

<none>

179

HI Limit

179

End of Activity 7-2

180

BridgeVIEW Security

181

Table 7-1

182

How Do You Log In and Out?

183

Figure 7-3

184

Privileges Dialog Box

184

Figure 7-4

186

Edit User Accounts Dialog Box

186

Figure 7-5

186

Add a User Account

186

How Do You Modify the List

187

How Do You Export Users to

188

How Do You Import Users from

189

Environment Privileges?

190

Operator Interface Security

190

Figure 7-6

191

Summary Display

192

Administrator

193

Administration

193

My Alarm Summary With Ack.vi

193

Alarm Summary with Ack.vi

193

End of Activity 7-3

195

Chapter 8 Servers

197

Figure 8-1

201

Server Browser

201

Figure 8-2

201

Using Remote OPC Servers

202

Figure 8-4

205

Figure 8-5

206

Creating VIs

209

BridgeVIEW\Activity\Solution

210

Terminals

211

Tip Strips

212

Wire Stretching

213

Selecting and Deleting Wires

213

Bad Wires

214

Activity 9-1. Create a VI

215

Activity

216

End of Activity 9-1

217

Activity 9-2. Document a VI

218

Chapter 9 Creating VIs

219

End of Activity 9-2

220

What is a SubVI?

220

Search Hierarchy

222

Icon and Connector

222

Temp & Vol.vi

225

End of Activity 9-3

226

Activity 9-4. Call a SubVI

227

End of Activity 9-4

228

How Do You Debug a VI?

229

Using Temp & Vol.vi

230

Tank Volume

230

End of Activity 9-5

231

Customizing VIs

232

Front Panel

233

Get Operator Info.vi

235

Chapter 10 Customizing VIs

236

End of Activity 10-1

239

Loops and Charts

240

Chart Modes

241

End of Activity 11-1

242

While Loops

243

End of Activity 11-2

246

Random Signal.vi

247

End of Activity 11-3

248

End of Activity 11-4

249

Shift Registers

250

Chapter 11 Loops and Charts

251

End of Activity 11-5

254

Customize Your Trends

256

End of Activity 11-6

259

For Loops

259

Numeric Conversion

260

Activity 11-7. Use a For Loop

261

End of Activity 11-7

263

Case and Sequence Structures

264

Case Structure

265

End of Activity 12-1

267

Sequence Structures

268

Modifying the Numeric Format

269

Setting the Data Range

270

End of Activity 12-2

273

Formula Node

274

End of Activity 12-3

278

Artificial Data Dependency

278

Front Panel Object Attributes

279

End of Activity 13-1

282

Arrays, Clusters, and Graphs

283

Auto-Indexing

284

Multiplot Graphs

288

End of Activity 14-1

289

Input Array

290

End of Activity 14-2

291

Initialize Array

292

Array Size

293

Array Subset

294

Index Array

295

Extract Column

296

Extract Row

296

End of Activity 14-3

298

What is Polymorphism?

299

Clusters

299

Customizing Graphs

300

Graph Cursors

301

Graph Axes

302

Data Acquisition Arrays

302

End of Activity 14-4

304

Intensity Plots

305

Application Control

306

What is the VI Server?

307

End of Activity 15-1

312

Program Design

313

Chapter 16 Program Design

314

Create the Program

315

Good Diagram Style

316

Use Left-to-Right Layouts

317

Check for Errors

317

Study the Examples

320

HMI Function Reference

321

BridgeVIEW VI Library

323

Alarms and Events VIs

324

Acknowledge Alarm

325

Get Alarm Summary Status

326

Read Alarm Summary

327

Read Event History

331

Read Tag Alarm

335

Call HTV

338

Decimate Historical Trend

340

Decimate Historical Trends

341

Get Historical Tag List

343

Get Historical Trend Info

344

Historical Trend Statistics

345

MM/DD/YYYY

347

DD/MM/YYYY

347

Read Historical Trend

351

Read Historical Trends

353

System VIs

355

Enable Event Logging

356

Enable Printing

358

Engine Launch

359

Engine Shutdown

360

Get Engine Status

361

Get Tag Status Info

362

Post System Error or Event

363

Tag Status Handler

364

Security VIs

366

Check Operator Privileges

367

Get Operator Name

368

Invoke Login Dialog

369

Programmatic Login

370

Programmatic Logout

371

Security Monitor

372

User Account List

373

Tags VIs

373

Read Tag

374

Read Tag (bit array)

376

Read Tag (discrete)

378

Read Tag (string)

380

Trend Tags

382

Write Tag

383

Write Tag (bit array)

384

Write Tag (discrete)

385

Write Tag (string)

386

Write Tag on Change

387

Write Tag on Change (string)

390

Get Analog Tag Alarm Limit

392

Get Group List

395

Get Tag Alarm Enabled

396

Get Tag Attribute

397

Get Tag Bad Status Alarm Info

398

Get Tag Description Group

399

Get Tag I/O Connection Info

400

Get Tag List

401

Get Tag Logging Info

402

Get Tag Range and Units

403

Set Multiple Tag Attributes

404

Set Tag Attribute

405

Citadel and Open Database

406

Connectivity

406

System\Data

407

What is SQL?

408

Threads Table

409

Data Transforms

409

Table B-1

410

Data Transform Commands

410

SQL Examples

411

>= "9:45"

415

FROM Threads

417

Telephone and Fax Support

421

Technical Support Form

422

National Instruments Products

423

Other Products

423

Documentation Comment Form

424

Glossary

425

For i = 0 to n – 1, do

428





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